X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5c9969e16e01fb49 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: ascii art for email and much more! (was: Copyright Notice, blah blah blah) Date: 1997/09/03 Message-ID: <340D38B7.41C67EA6@nospam.sm.luth.se>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 270301963 References: <340C241A.2C67412E@nospam.sm.luth.se> <19970902223700.SAA28969@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: Junk e-mail gladly reported (I have got credit for chucking several spammers out of their accounts) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art PeteCasso wrote: > > Again ignoring the emotional BS in this and other threads for the moment. > Good, Veronicastein, you demonstrated what I said, email can transmit more > than just pure ascii! > I meant that post as a deterring example.... I definitely do not recommend that kind of stuff! > So why do you have such a big hangup against developing ascii further, I don't have "a big hangup against developing ascii further", I LOVE "typewriter art" (pictures made with a typewriter) and other ways that people have used the shapes of letters to create pictures, but I don't think that it belongs in this newsgroup. And I also don't think that they can be called "ascii art". > commensurate with the transmission capabilities of email/newsgroup/web? Is > the hangup just because of the words in a standard that originated in > pre-Internet days? > It's a very nice "standard", what I like about it is its simplicity, the way it is viewable for everybody, the compactness of the pictures compared to other image formats and also the challenge in making good looking pictures with a very limited set of characters. (have you seen Japanese ascii art? They have a much bigger "standard ascii" table and the pictures that can be made with it are quite fantastic, but they do not belong here either since they would look like rubbish for most of us....) > Or are there any chances for a more open mind towards progress based on > that old standard? > I have nothing against progress, but if you want to develop ascii art please do it elsewhere and stop polluting this newsgroup with it. (and did you take that computer science course yet? I get the impression that you need it...) -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )